All About Pocket Knives

Received my 2024 Case Razor knife today. I ended up getting the peachseed amber bone model and very please with the looks of it.
Has anyone else bought one yet? I'm trying to decide if I should carry or just put up for collector value. What do you guys think is value really dropped once you carry?

Thanks,
Clint

How much value it loses depends on how you take care of it. If you cary it mixed in with coins and keys it is going to get scratched and scuffed. If you sharpen it with relatively coarse gray hardware store stones or worse use an electric sharpener the metal loss is going to show. Give it a dedicated pocket or at least a pocket with only soft things in with it and resharpen with a hard Arkansas stone without scratching the sides of the blades and its value loss will be minimal. Also some dish washing pads scratch blades and others do not. Most belt pouchs will not make any marks on a knife.

If it gets stolen before you use it you will wish you'd let yourself enjoy it.

Meigscl wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:28 pm Received my 2024 Case Razor knife today. I ended up getting the peachseed amber bone model and very please with the looks of it.
Has anyone else bought one yet? I'm trying to decide if I should carry or just put up for collector value. What do you guys think is value really dropped once you carry?

Thanks,
Clint

Where's the photo?

Modern Slip Joints wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:05 am How much value it loses depends on how you take care of it. If you cary it mixed in with coins and keys it is going to get scratched and scuffed. If you sharpen it with relatively coarse gray hardware store stones or worse use an electric sharpener the metal loss is going to show. Give it a dedicated pocket or at least a pocket with only soft things in with it and resharpen with a hard Arkansas stone without scratching the sides of the blades and its value loss will be minimal. Also some dish washing pads scratch blades and others do not. Most belt pouchs will not make any marks on a knife.

If it gets stolen before you use it you will wish you'd let yourself enjoy it.

Very true and valid points

After looking at knife it seems the jigging goes to bolster and does not have the same look as all the amber bones I have seen in past

I asked Case about it as usually the jigging does not go to bolster..

Wudidiz wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:20 am

Meigscl wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:28 pm Received my 2024 Case Razor knife today. I ended up getting the peachseed amber bone model and very please with the looks of it.
Has anyone else bought one yet? I'm trying to decide if I should carry or just put up for collector value. What do you guys think is value really dropped once you carry?

Thanks,
Clint

Where's the photo?

Just added photos. Let me know what you think about the bone as this does not look like picture on website I ordered.

Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact that’s how many knives look, especially iconic older pocket knives.

Case matches the covers to the adjacent bolsters’ thickness. That usually requires the removal of some handle material through a process which cutlers call “hafting”. (Which is basically sanding.). How much material is removed to make the cover-to-bolster interface smooth is a function of the thickness of the handle cover slab. If it’s thicker, more hafting is required, which removes the outer layer of the cover.

Bolsters (in most cases) are made of nickel silver, which is softer than bone or stag. During hafting some of the bolster is typically removed along with the cover material - bone in this case. Which may leave some indentations in the bolster at places where there are corresponding indentations in the cover material. At Case the hafter operators call this “sucking out” of the bolsters by the hafting machine. Below is an article from the Case Collector’s Club newsletter which explains it better than I can. Click on it to enlarge for easier reading.

If you don’t like it you can send it to me. I think it’s great!

Ken

Ken, thanks for posting the article.

Great article, lots of good info there.

Carry it. It won't gain much collector value in your lifetime.

I like it. The jigged bolsters at least lets anyone know that the bolsters are original. Haha

Wudidiz wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:03 pm I like it. The jigged bolsters at least lets anyone know that the bolsters are original. Haha

Maybe so, in a way. But the bolsters are not jigged - that is the whole point of the article!

Another note - throughout the article the author repeatedly refers to “covers”.

After the covers are properly affixed to the scales (to which the bolsters have been electric welded)

“Covers” are the bone, MOP, stag, wood, etc that are often mistakenly referred to as “scales”. On most pocket knives the “scales” are the liners, not the handle covers.

Ken